Tips To Improve Financial Skills

April 5, 2017April 7, 2017 by Sunil Sonkar

Keeping a balanced financial situation for your company should be the call for every entrepreneur. A perfect balance sheet reveals good health of an organization. It attracts more investors in short term and as an aftermath paves the way towards better growth.

Learn from experts

Harvard Business School professor Richard Ruback says one should be very conversant on the subject even though he or she is not updated with finance like an expert. Discussing more with others will be better. It is well said if one speaks the language of money, success will follow you.

Overcome fears

Finance is not something like rocket science. It is as simple as counting balls and strikes in baseball. It is not complicated. Accounting is simple and mostly equipped with additions and subtractions. Sometimes multiplications and divisions come in. So, there is nothing to fear about it if you are not an expert in the segment.

Learn the lingo

Even though finance is not a magic, but you may face some amount of jargon of course. It is suggested to attend the training sessions in school or office to learn what you don’t know. Referring to related text books from library will be an added advantage. However, Google may also be a good friend in your learning process.

Play with numbers

It is important to play with numbers. Know what will happen if costs are increased? Learn the consequences of revenue taking a downward dip. Try to estimate the result if prices of your products increases. How the market will be affected if the retailing price takes a northward turn in graph?

Find financial mentor

It is better to find a good mentor for yourself from whom you can learn the unknown tit-bits of finance. The lessons learned will be helpful in overcoming financial risks while running a business. It is a natural way to learning. Talk to him or her about your upcoming projection and know from the expert what is right in it and what is wrong. It will help in sharpening your focus.

Make it personal

Always make yourself understand the salary you are paid is a deduction from the revenue the company is making. So, try to perform in such a way that your employer makes more and more profit from you. This is a useful exercise though many may argue against it. It is simply integrating yourself with contributors of others.